題名: Linguistic and Social Factors Affecting Sound Changes in the Southern Min Dialects of Lok-kok and An-ping in Taiwan
作者: Shu-chuan Chen
貢獻者: Department of Chinese, National Hsinchu University of Education 關鍵詞: linguistic factors;social factors;sound variation;sound change;Lok-kok
dialect;An-ping dialect 日期: 2009-12-16
上傳時間: 2010-01-08T01:47:05Z 出版者: 亞洲大學外國語文學系
摘要: This study examines the ongoing sound changes in the two dialects of Southern Min as spoken in Taiwan, Lok-kok and An-ping, through an investigation of the percentages of lexical diffusion, which we propose are driven by linguistic and social factors. The data for this study was drawn from pre-designed questionnaires, observation, and in-depth interviews. With respect to linguistic factors, we predict that a dialectal sound would undergo a faster rate of sound change if the corresponding, more-commonly-used sound of another dialect already existed, and it was an independent phoneme in the phonological system. We also suggest that the balance of sound inventory or the enlargement of perceptual contrast may contribute to the tendency of sound change.
Moreover, social factors might influence sound changes too, as exemplified in the case of a number of
stigmatized sounds in the Lok-kok dialect. Meanwhile, the sound change might undergo faster if it was influenced by the dominant neighboring dialects. Overall, our results show that the sound changes in both Lok- kok and An-ping dialect correlate with our predictions
regarding both linguistic and social factors. In sum, this study
contributes to the investigation of both linguistic and social factors, and their influence on the mechanism of sound change that contribute to differences among languages.
